950th Anniversary of this most important battle. - who will win this time?

An AAR blogged LINK

http://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/hastings-anniversary-replay.html

That looked great, apart from the mounted knight pieces, which I thought were disappointingly nondescript compared to all the other elements in the game.

Nice report Norm. Well played Harold!

Looks great!

Your miniatures look good to! Should be very nice when they get to full armies!

Enjoyed the report. Look forward to seeing your scale-up to miniatures. Like that you have the possibility of catastrophic penalties for commiting the CinC to direct combat. Incidently, given your name, do you have an emotional attachment to William's side? 

Ah - there's a thought. I should have a Norman army in every scale and play that side with very big dice, while giving the Anglo-Saxon player one of those 5mm mini dice things.

Thanks all - a fun play.

In all the fuss and palaver about the 950th, we've had mention of changes in the language, architecture and so on, but as yet no mention of the bloody class system we're still stuck with and the pseudo-Normans still running the country.

See what you have made me do Norm, dig out the impetus lists for hastings. 

Really good stuff !

Cheers - Phil

Bravo - good to see the anniversary being marked and some serious history in action.

I got to fight Hastings with real Normans a couple of weeks ago:
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.fr/2016/09/participation-games-at-shows.html

(Yes, they made me play the Saxons. Yes, I lost.)

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info

Well done marking the anniversary

Running participation games at historic events is an interesting way of showcasing the hobby

Indeed. LWA ran Hastings at the Liverpool Museum as a participation game last month.